London Exhibited in 1852: Elucidating Its Natural and Physical Characteristics, Antiquity and Architecture, Arts, Manufactures, Trade, and Organization, Social, Literary, and Scientific Institutions, and Numerous Galleries of Fine ArtJohn Weale J. Weale, 1852 - 910 sivua |
Kirjan sisältä
Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 100
Sivu 41
... late years , but those above enumerated are the most es- teemed . Of the ryes , supposed originally to have come from Crete , only one variety , the secale cereale , is cultivated . Six varieties of barley are planted : the hordeum ...
... late years , but those above enumerated are the most es- teemed . Of the ryes , supposed originally to have come from Crete , only one variety , the secale cereale , is cultivated . Six varieties of barley are planted : the hordeum ...
Sivu 43
... late years . Of the total number of 370 given previously , the greater portion are , however , trees which are only grown in orna- mental parks , or in positions where they must be considered to be artificially cultivated . Perhaps that ...
... late years . Of the total number of 370 given previously , the greater portion are , however , trees which are only grown in orna- mental parks , or in positions where they must be considered to be artificially cultivated . Perhaps that ...
Sivu 44
... late years . The acer campestre , or common field maple , is usually treated as a bush in the southern counties ; but when allowed to grow it is a rather fine tree ; it is indigenous . The misletoe is sometimes found upon this species ...
... late years . The acer campestre , or common field maple , is usually treated as a bush in the southern counties ; but when allowed to grow it is a rather fine tree ; it is indigenous . The misletoe is sometimes found upon this species ...
Sivu 45
... late into leaf , and is therefore only grown in coppices , or in such places as allow of its being made a commercial tree . The best ash timber grows in free , loamy soils , with a mixture of gravel . In rich soils it is luxuriant , but ...
... late into leaf , and is therefore only grown in coppices , or in such places as allow of its being made a commercial tree . The best ash timber grows in free , loamy soils , with a mixture of gravel . In rich soils it is luxuriant , but ...
Sivu 48
... late years it has become fashionable to establish pinetums or collections of abietina . Amongst the most celebrated of these may be cited the pinetum of Dropmore , near Windsor , and Flitwick House , Bedfordshire , to which we are ...
... late years it has become fashionable to establish pinetums or collections of abietina . Amongst the most celebrated of these may be cited the pinetum of Dropmore , near Windsor , and Flitwick House , Bedfordshire , to which we are ...
Muita painoksia - Näytä kaikki
Yleiset termit ja lausekkeet
Almshouses annual apsis arches architect architecture Astronomer Astronomer Royal asylum Bank beautiful Bridge British building called Canal centre chapel Cheapside Church City of London collection Company contains Court ditto Domenichino Duke east England English entrance erected establishment feet Gallery garden George Gothic Greenwich ground guineas Hall Henry Henry VIII Hospital Inigo Jones institution instrument interior John King Landscape Lane length London London clay Lord lower makers manufacturers ment metropolis museum nearly object observations observatory occupied ornamental P. P. Rubens Palace Park patients piers plants Portrait present prison Queen Regent's Park Rembrandt residence river Road Royal School side society Somerset House Southwark specimens Square stone Street style subscription Surrey telescope Thames tion Titian tower trees upper visitor walls Westminster whole Woolwich
Suositut otteet
Sivu 774 - True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the Eighth, which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order with their Georges and Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous.
Sivu 541 - Piscium, had exhausted the Society's finances to such an extent that the salaries even of its officers were in arrears. Accordingly, at the Council meeting of the 2nd of June, it was ordered that " Mr. Newton's book be printed, and that Mr. Halley undertake the business of looking after it, and printing it at his own charge, which he engaged to do.
Sivu 118 - For every gallon of such spirits or strong Waters, of any strength not exceeding the strength of proof by Sykes's hydrometer, and so in proportion for any greater or less strength than the strength of proof, and for any greater or less quantity than a gallon, viz.
Sivu 380 - ... arms' length, and showing them to the soldiers, to excite their compassion. The whole composition is full of animation, to which the air of the horses, thus pressed backwards, does not a little contribute. Both these sketches are admirably composed, and in every respect excellent ; few pictures of Rubens, even of his most finished .. works, give a higher idea of his genius.
Sivu 566 - To multiply and record observations, and patiently to await the result at some future period, was the object proposed by them ; and it was their favourite maxim that the time was not yet come for a general system of geology, but that all must be content for many years to be exclusively engaged in furnishing materials for future generalizations.
Sivu 88 - ... believed, will do their work well, and they remain at their post as long as these expectations are fulfilled, no matter who is at the head of affairs. The salaries of the First Lord of the Treasury and of the Chancellor of the Exchequer are £5,000 a year each; the Junior Lords have £1,000 each, and the Secretaries £2,000. The whole cost of the department amounts to upwards of £55,000 per annum, but the sum varies from year to year, according to circumstances.
Sivu 631 - our astronomical observer" at a salary of £100 per annum, his duty being "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Sivu 591 - It is not intended to teach the trade of the carpenter, the mason, the dyer, or any other particular business...
Sivu 247 - The advantages that the King, and all concerned in tallies, had from the bank, were soon so sensibly felt, that all people saw into the secret reasons that made the enemies of the constitution set themselves with so much earnestness against it.
Sivu 20 - One very remarkable circumstance attending the fall of rain, is, " that smaller quantities have been observed to be deposited in high than in low situations, even though the difference of altitude should be inconsiderable. Similar observations have been made at the summit, and near the base of hills of no great elevation. Rain-gauges, placed on both sides of a hill at the bottom, always indicate a greater fall of rain than on the exposed top...